# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-pienkowski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:09:31.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-pienkowski"
name: "Jan Pieńkowski"
slug: "jan-pienkowski"
description: "Jan Michał Pieńkowski was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the Meg and Mog picture book series. He also did stage design for the theatre. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books."
tagline: "British illustrator and book designer (1936–2022)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-08-08"
deathDate: "2022-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             0.8530805687203792
  historical:           5.497086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pie%C5%84kowski"
    title: "Jan Pieńkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "جان بييكوفسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pie%C5%84kowski"
    title: "Jan Pieńkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pie%C5%84kowski"
    title: "Jan Pieńkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pie%C5%84kowski"
    title: "Jan Pieńkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pienkowski"
    title: "Jan Pienkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6149726"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump